Narek Avetisian The Multi-talented Artist
Narek was born in Yerevan, Armenia in September 20, 1969. Sergey Parajanov said about him "Minas is alive and he will remain alive in Narek!"
Avant-garde artist Narek Avetisyan works with different media, including: painting, video, animation, music and light installations. His most notable works, however, are abstract acrylic paintings with intense colors.
Like his father who created and filmed many artworks in such fields like playwriting and cinema 🎥
Playwriting
In 1962 , at the Yerevan Opera and Ballet Theater, he created three ballet-novels: "The World of Dolls", "The Spanish Girl. bolero", "negro quarter".
In 1971, he formed A. "Diamond" by Spendaryan
In 1974 , A. Khachatryan's "Gayane" ballet.
In 1963, Al. He designs "Three ballet-novels" for the Opera and Ballet Theater named after Spendiaryan.
Cinema
1969 Filmed in Mikael Vardanov's film The Color of the Armenian Land .
Minas also worked in cinema, as an artist for the film "This Green, Red World" by Yuri Yerznkyan and Ernest Martirosyan.
Narek and others mourned Minas, saying "February 23 was the day of the Soviet Army. They censored everything themselves. It was officially announced that it was the 24th. Stupidity."
- Narek Avetisyan
"Minas, I am fifty years older than you. Too bad I don't have much time left. Where were you? You should have come a little earlier. Don't forget, art loves struggle. Now I am not alone. You are not alone either. So, continue to be brave. I believe in that good hand of yours."
- Martiros Saryan
"Minas' temperament is strong, bright... Being an artist of symphonic breath, he entered the theater with broad and deep thoughts. He transferred his powerful symphony to theater painting."
- Aram Khachatryan
"As an artist, I know and am sure that every artist, standing in front of Minas' paintings, sees there the realization of what he did not do, what he could not do, what he dreamed of. Minas was the rising tower of our painting, visible from afar and opening up the horizons."
- Hakob Hakobyan
Education
He grew up in an artistic environment and graduated from P. Terlemezian Arts College, Yerevan, in 1988. He then took advanced studies in the Painting Department at Yerevan’s Academy of Fine Arts, between 1988 and 1992.
Avetisyan’s work continues in the tradition upon which the 20th century avant-garde movement was based, refreshing and intertwining it with influences drawn from Armenian art.
Like father like son
Minas and Narek share some interesting things like the palette 🎨.
Minas's palette is dominated by red, blue, orange, yellow...
The most vivid and colorful compositional paintings of Minas come from the impressions he received in the village during his childhood days. ("Carpet works", "Khnotsi", "Village", "Sleeping", etc.). The Jajurian iconography is of special interest. The landscape painting "Jajjur" (1960. Canvas, oil paint, Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan ) is the synthesis of the most valuable thing that the artist acquired in his many canvases depicting nature.
Narek's palette of vibrant bright colors, dominated by red, unites with his bold brushstrokes and handmade marks to create striking compositions that reflect the richness and passion of his inner world, commanding the attention of the viewer.
Personal Exhibitions
2019 Arame Art Gallery presents “Canvases of Jajur” by Narek Avetisian Yerevan, Armenia
2014 Minas and Narek Avetisyan. Modernism and Avantgarde in Armenia. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, Halle, Germany.
2013 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer, InteriorDAsein gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2012 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer, Zamek-Krolewski, Royal Castle (Oct. 2012 – Jan. 2013), Warsaw, Poland.
2011 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer, Academia Gallery (26.10.-10.11.2011), Yerevan, Armenia.
2011 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer, UNDP Country Office, (Aug. 2011), Yerevan, Armenia.
2011 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer at the Salon international d’art “artbygeneve”, (Apr. 2011), Geneva, Switzerland.
2011 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer and Fractal-Transformations, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, (March 2011), Yerevan, Armenia.
2009 Coming Back, City Hall, Yerevan, Armenia.
2006 Spaces of Light and Trace, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia.
2000 Yerevan Biennale, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia.
1993 The 5th International Festival of Classical Music”, curated by Vladimir Spivakov, Colmar, France.
1992 ACHROME performance, Centrum Culturi, Lublin, Poland.
Group Exhibitions
2020 – “Spring Salon 2020”. Artist’s Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
2019 Second International Art Fair, Expo -center, Yerevan, Armenia
2018 First International Art Fair, Expo -center, Yerevan, Armenia
2017 Exhibition, dedicated to 20th anniversary of ACCEA, ACCEA, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Will to life, Kalentz Мuseum, Yerevan, Armenia
2014 Minas and Narek Avetisyan. Modernism and Аvantgarde in Armenia. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, Halle, Germany
2012 The Album of the Fifth Beijing International art Biennale, including the Special Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Armenia, at the Fifth Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2011 ARMENIAN CONTEMPORARY ART dedicated to 20th Anniversary of the Independence of Armenia 2011, (12.12.2011), Yerevan, Armenia
2011 Charity Auction of Contemporary Armenian Art, at CHRISTIE’S Fine Art Auctions (09.12.2011), London, England
2011 Armenian Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art of Kuwait, (March), Kuwait-City, Kuwait
2011 Constitution and Art Celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia, at the Constitutional Court, (Feb.), Yerevan, Armenia
2010 Optimism. Armenian New Art, the Artist’s Union, Yerevan, Armenia
2005 Oil, Canvas, Academy Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2004 Audiovision Collaborative Project with techno-musicians of the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
2003 Getting Closer - Vier Armenier suchen einen Ausweg, in IFA-Gallery, Berlin and Bonn, Germany
2002 Armenian Contemporary Art, Center of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran
2002 Festival of Alternative Art, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
2001 Utopiana Armenian - Swiss exhibition, Hay-art cultural center, Yerevan, Armenia
2001 Space and Sound, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
2000 Instead of Voice, Hay-art Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia
2000 Second International Art Biennale, Gyumri, Armenia
2000 Festival of Alternative Art, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
2000 Virtual Manifest. Armenian Artists on Cyber-spatial Relations, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
1999 Earth, Universe, Dream, the 48th International Art Biennale, Venice, Italy
1999 Childish Fears or the Christmas Eve, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
1999 Great Atrophy, Hay-art Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia
1998 Yerevan Biannual Exhibition of Avant-Garde Art, Yerevan, Armenia
1996 Intervention in Closed Systems”, Factory of Robotics, Yerevan, Armenia
1996 Beautiful Progress, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK” Yerevan, Armenia
1995 Contemporary Art of Armenia of the 1980-1995s, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1995 Art Demonstration, Act Group, Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia
1995 Act, Ex-Voto Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
1994 Clean Creation, Gallery of Arvest magazine, Yerevan, Armenia
1994 Yerevan Landscape, Ex-Voto Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
1994 Youth Exhibition, Artists’ Union, Yerevan, Armenia
1994 The Third Floor - Ex, Artists’ Union, Yerevan, Armenia
1991 Monochrome, Gallery of Aesthetic Center, Yerevan, Armenia
